DevOps/Platform Engineer (Terraform Specialist)

Royal IHC is a global market leader in the construction of 'Equipment at Sea'. We are an important supplier of vessels and mission equipment for the dredging, offshore, defense and mining industry. Royal IHC is a global leader in maritime technology.

IHC India is part of IHC's global network and is our foothold in India. With multiple IHC build vessels and equipment operational in India and sailing India's rivers and seas. A lot of services, upgrades and repairs are required.

Our mission is to be the preferred supplier of equipment and services for the offshore, dredging and mining industry in India.

To further strengthen the IT Team of Royal IHC in India we are hiring ;

DevOps / Platform Engineer (Terraform Specialist)

Your Role

The DevOps / Platform Engineer is responsible for transforming architectural designs into secure, scalable, and automated cloud infrastructure using Terraform. This role owns the Terraform module ecosystem, ensures consistent CI/CD delivery, and safeguards the integrity of infrastructure state. The engineer works closely with architects, cloud engineers, and development teams to provide a robust and compliant platform for application workloads.

As DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the following

Terraform Engineering

Develop, version, and maintain reusable Terraform modules aligned with architectural standards.

Implement and manage Terraform state backends, workspaces, and locking mechanisms to ensure safe multi team operations.

Enable drift detection, reporting, and remediation workflows to maintain infrastructure compliance.

Conduct peer reviews on Terraform pull requests to enforce quality, security, and coding standards.

CI/CD & Automation

Design, build, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.

Implement automated validation, linting, security scanning, and integration testing (Terratest, checkov, tflint).

Ensure pipeline security, including managed identities, OIDC federation, secret management, and least privilege access.

Platform Reliability & Governance

Maintain the platform's module ecosystem, versioning strategy, and documentation.

Monitor platform performance, pipeline health, and infrastructure quality indicators.

Collaborate with Cloud Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to align on best practices.

Support troubleshooting of provisioning errors, pipeline failures, and infrastructure reconciliation issues.

Required Experience & Knowledge

Technical Expertise

3-6 years of work experience as DevOps / Platform Engineer

Advanced Terraform proficiency, including modules, providers, workspaces, expressions, and best practices.

Strong understanding of Azure Resource Manager internals, ARM templates, and Bicep fundamentals.

Deep experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, and pull-request governance.

Knowledge of infrastructure testing frameworks (Terratest, checkov, tflint) and compliance automation.

Familiarity with cloud identity/security concepts

Managed identities

OIDC workload identity federation

Secure secret management (Key Vault, GitHub/Azure DevOps secrets)

Professional Experience

Hands-on experience building production-grade cloud environments using IaC.

Background in maintaining or designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery.

Experience collaborating in multi-team environments and supporting platform consumers.

Demonstrated ability to write clean, documented, maintainable infrastructure code.

Certifications Requirements & Education

Required

HashiCorp Terraform Associate- Essential.

AZ-400: Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert- Primary/Preferred.

AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate -Strong foundational requirement.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or relevant filed.

Fluent English speaking and good in writing.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills

Experience with cloud architecture design patterns.

Exposure to monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana).

Knowledge of container platforms (AKS, Docker).

Experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Azure Policy).

Understanding of FinOps or cost-optimization practices.